3. Energized Space: Moving Bodies - P.90 The stage, even when set and lit ready for the performance, will keep the spectators' attention for a very short time if no actors are present, for in the theatre it is the presence of the actors that makes the space meaningful.
- It is through the body and the person of the actor that all the contributing systems of meaning (visual, vocal, spatial, fictional) are activated, and the actor / performer is without doubt the most important agent in all the signifying processes involved in the performance event.
- P.90 "we consider the personal and scenic technique of the actor as the core of theatre art" (Grotowski, 1969: 15) *Towards a poor theatre
- P.90-91 "The more the stage is kept bare, the more powerful the effects that can be created there through the action. The more austere and rigid the stage, the more freedom there will be for the imagination to play... On a bare stage the actor is obliged to create everything, to draw everything from his own being." (Copeau, 1974:220) *Copeau, Jacques. 1974. Registres. Vol. 1 of Appels. Paris: Gallimard.
Mcauley, Gay. Space in Performance: Making Meaning in the Theatre. USA: University of Michigan Press, 1999.
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